Ian Shoales
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SAUTER BEN CARSON EDWARD BOND JOSEPH CONRAD “its the quiet ones that have the biggest heart in them, its the humble ones who can see the bigge... CODY MATTHEW ROCK CHRISTINA ENGELA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking chang... RANI BORA, HOW TO TURN STRESS ON ITS HEAD The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class... SLOAN WILSON ROBERTSON DAVIES MAX MULLER My inspiration to adapt to change is a middle class demon who can’t afford the upper class sins. YAMIN RASHEED That building is the property of the county, ... This county board are the only people who can make ... ELDRIN BELL Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are ca... JAMES ZOGBY CRAIG GROESCHEL TOM WOLFE When the government mandates that everyone must buy a product, its sellers can, and will, increase i... ROBERT ZUBRIN A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING NICKY OPPENHEIMER ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think you have to send a message out to those outside the state, ... that Louisiana is in fact tak... ROBERT ADLEY I know this district and I like its people. People like someone who understands where they come from... AL WEED C.S. LEWIS LADY GAGA chose Pitcairn because of its people. They're friendly and they'll talk to you -- and I've learned a... CHARLES GIBSON Any religion-based state has a mission to limit the minds of its people, to fight the developments o... RAIF BADAWI If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfo... ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice,... AKBAR RAFSANJANI If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice,... AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI JUSTIN TRUDEAU Deception is very slow, and it almost camouflages its self with the truth in the initial stages. It ... JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM RABIH ALAMEDDINE CONNIE STEVENS ANI DIFRANCO ABRAHAM LINCOLN The administration has dragged its feet. We have people who have been waiting for months. This is ri... HAROLD SCHAITBERGER Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA RITA MAE BROWN JOSEPH PULITZER The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized pe... GEORGE F. KENNAN Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or... ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND Article Six of Maryland's Declaration of Rights states that when the state is oppressing its people ... CHRIS GOODMAN JAMES MADISON GIFFORD PINCHOT GIFFORD PINCHOT NORMAN DAVIES I think its particularly good for cases that have some real sensitivity, like sexual harassment or a... ANN HUGHES MILAN KUNDERA ELIOT ENGEL What we can't afford to do and what Welsh rugby can't afford to do is to lose its stars to England o... GARETH JENKINS Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level—at best we can end up in a minority, and tho... ANTHONY MARAIS DAVID RIESMAN The US is still recognized as a leading place to do business, the home of desirable brands and popul... SIMON ANHOLT SAMUEL JOHNSON ROBERT ZOELLICK here is my sermon-we have to realized that sometimes, something or someone that we hated the most ar... EJUMP - 2017 I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie... JOSé RIZAL The best thing you've ever done for me…is to help me take my life less seriously…’cuz its only... INDIGO GIRLS The best thing you've ever done for me
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cuz its only li... INDIGO GIRLS REBECCA SOLNIT There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious i... HENRY SEIDEL CANBY LYSANDER SPOONER These incubators are an excellent way for new businesses to share resources and therefore cut costs.... BARBARA STROTHER I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA L.M. MONTGOMERY We conclude that Iceland on almost all measures looks worse than Thailand did before its crisis in 1... LARS CHRISTENSEN The old San Francisco was dead. It will be a different city. It has to be different. Its needs are d... GLADYS HANSEN We are seeing people who are just looking for someone to listen to them and love them. GREG BARR DIANA ROSE MORCILLA Today, it only takes six to eight weeks and we only have to do it once. This eliminates the need to ... DEL ROSS DEYTH BANGER JOHN D. MACDONALD SIGMUND FREUD
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The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future. 
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They taught me different was wrong. 
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A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. 
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needs a political transition to make its government responsible and accountable to its people. 
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